Top person sorted by normalized score

At this site we keep several lists of primes, most notably the list of the 5,000 largest known primes. Who found the most of these record primes? We keep separate counts for persons, projects and programs. To see these lists click on 'number' to the right.

Clearly one 100,000,000 digit prime is much harder to discover than quite a few 100,000 digit primes. Based on the usual estimates we score the top persons, provers and projects by adding ‎(log n)³ log log n‎ for each of their primes n. Click on 'score' to see these lists.

Finally, to make sense of the score values, we normalize them by dividing by the current score of the 5000th prime. See these by clicking on 'normalized score' in the table on the right.

normalized person primes score 287069 Luke Durant 1 58.0015 69070 Curtis Cooper 9 56.5769 62153 Patrick Laroche 1 56.4714 50636 Jonathan (Jon) Pace 1 56.2664 40727 Ryan Propper 342 56.0487 9735 Serge Batalov 373.333 54.6175 8519 Edson Smith 1 54.4841 8239 Odd Magnar Strindmo 1 54.4507 5407 Hans-Michael Elvenich 1 54.0294 3272 Steven R. Boone 1 53.5273 3160 Péter Szabolcs 1 53.4922 2772 Tom Greer 123 53.3615 1806 Dr. Martin Nowak 1 52.9330 1760 Anonymous Person(s) 216 52.9070 1673 Dr. James Scott Brown 182 52.8565 1426 Josh Findley 1 52.6968 1236 Jonas Skendelis 1 52.5535 1208 Pavel Atnashev 8 52.5303 1199 Rob Gahan 32.5 52.5233 1117 Piotr Chodzinski 4 52.4523

Notes:

normalized score

Just how do you make sense out of something as vague as our 'score' for primes? One possibility is to compare the amount of effort involved in earning that score, with the effort required to find the 5000th prime on the list. The normalized score does this: it is the number of primes that are the size of the 5000th, required to earn the same score (rounded to the nearest integer).

Note that if a person stops finding primes, its normalized score will steadily drop as the size of the 5000th primes steadily increases. The non-normalized scores drop too, but not as quickly because they only drop when the person's primes are pushed off the list.